From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jun 22 10:48:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EEC14EB8 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA12961; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:48:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:48:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199906221748.NAA12961@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/10019: Keyinfo and keyinit may use the wrong name if the uid is shared by multiple logins In-Reply-To: <199906221720.KAA33927@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199906221720.KAA33927@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > So do you think it's worth the effort required to support multiple > usernames on the same UID? This is sort-of supported now. But you have to think hard about it, because su(1) does not affect the session's login name -- so it may not be worth devoting much attention to. (And it's easy to get it wrong -- witness my changes to lpr(1).) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message